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The Rise and Fall of Black Boston’s First Hospital
The Rise and Fall of Black Boston’s First Hospital
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30 minutes
Released:
Feb 11, 2024
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Podcast episode
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Despite the name, Plymouth Hospital was a South End institution. As the first training school for Black nurses in segregated Boston, Plymouth provided a needed service to an underserved community, led by a medical pioneer. Dr. Cornelius Nathanial Garland moved to Boston from the deep south to seek opportunity, but while he found opportunity in the Hub, he also found a deeply segregated medical establishment. To fight against this system and provide opportunities for Black Bostonians in medicine, he founded a hospital and nursing school. However, the most radical civil rights leader in Boston would accuse Garland of reinforcing that very same system of segregated medicine.
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Full show notes: http://HUBhistory.com/294/
Support us: http://patreon.com/HUBhistory/
Released:
Feb 11, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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